This fantastic video from the BBC and Royal Society covers the work of Elsie Widdowson and Dr Robert McCance who pioneered research into the composition of foods and their nutrients values
McCance and Widdowson’s The Composition of Food books are still key to our understanding of nutrition and public health.
Click here to view the video
This important dataset has evolved into the online Composition of Foods Integrated Dataset (CoFID) which Food and Nutrition NBRI are proud to maintain and update
Our scientists Dr Liangzi Zang and Robyn Curry are currently reviewing the nutrient values of meat
